Martial Ascent to Divinity-Chapter 676 - 655: Granddisciple

Winter of Death glanced at Zhou Leng, who was healing, extended his claw, picked up the Star-slaying Sword, and held it before him for a closer look.

"Worthy of His Majesty the True King’s sword, very strong, but too small, not even enough to pick teeth..." He shook his head and put it back.

From afar, the Giants watched Winter of Death with fear.

Only Li Shenkong stared at the Star-slaying Sword, his expression complex.

What kind of power did Zhou Leng inject into the Star-slaying Sword?

What if the Star-slaying Sword doesn’t recognize him anymore?

What if he can’t get it back?

His whole body was wounded, yet he couldn’t calm down, couldn’t sleep, couldn’t even focus on channeling power, just endured the agony.

After a whole three hours, Zhou Leng opened his eyes, put away the icy divine armor, and looked at his body.

The injuries had somewhat healed, but full recovery would take several more days.

"Why are you here?" Zhou Leng looked at Winter of Death.

"I’m here to learn the Divine Text from you." He was earnest.

"No time."

"I’ll wait until you have time," Winter of Death unreservedly replied, as freely as when he directly invited Zhou Leng to be his home tutor, or perhaps shamelessly.

Zhou Leng couldn’t be bothered with him, grabbed the Star-slaying Sword, and returned it to Li Shenkong.

"Are you cultivating the ’Star-slaying Nineteen Swords’?" Zhou Leng asked.

"Yes."

"I’ve seen a few moves of your swordsmanship; it’s very impressive, but since you haven’t learned the more basic swordsmanship, your foundation is unstable. Next time Ancient River Sect recruits disciples, participate, and I’ll pass on this ’Zhou Tian’s Star Orbit Sword’ to you, ensuring your swordsmanship will greatly advance."

"Yes." Li Shenkong felt an additional, more powerful force in the Star-slaying Sword, and cautiously sheathed the sword, placing it back in the sword box.

Zhou Leng didn’t mention the matter of the radiance, so neither did he.

The longsword returned, and Li Shenkong felt at ease, set up his tent, swallowed a pill, and quickly fell asleep.

Zhou Leng looked at Li Shenkong’s tent, shook his head helplessly.

He was almost becoming the transport captain.

The sword Qi he obtained from the Ancient River Sect relics automatically entered the Star-slaying Sword, benefiting Li Shenkong.

Forget it, all members of the Human Race, a future junior brother... no, a great-great-great-great-great-grand-disciple.

Zhou Leng walked towards the Giants and remaining Giant Dragon spirits to understand the situation.

Among these Giant Dragon spirits, there were many Dragon Carp People he had encountered before.

Through gestures and speech, he understood the general situation.

It turned out the ancient call had triggered a heaven and earth mutation.

The Divine Death Beast had to start migrating, and the strong Divine Death Beast clans took the opportunity to wage war and expand their power.

The Dragon Carp People clans were also affected.

Three Demigod Dragon Carp People were surrounded by Demigod Divine Death Beasts, with their whereabouts unknown.

The remaining Dragon Carp People were hunted down and could only flee.

As a result, they encountered the Giant group and were surrounded by Divine Death Beasts, forcing the originally opposing two races to join forces.

"Next, it’s going to be very dangerous here." Zhou Leng frowned and said.

"It’s all chaotic."

Zhou Leng was about to say something when the distant earth shook.

Winter of Death flapped his wings, taking to the sky, swooping down, extending his claw to grab Zhou Leng.

"What are you doing?"

"There are many Demigods in the distance, run quickly, if you don’t run... it’s already too late."

Vast numbers of Divine Death Beasts emerged from the mist, dense and stretching as far as the eye could see.

Amidst the sea of Divine Death Beast armies, huge Demigod Divine Death Beasts were looking over.

"Run quickly!" Winter of Death said and fled.

"We can’t leave them behind!"

"We’ll die here."

"What about the Giant Dragon spirits? I order the Demigod Divine Death Spirits to unite under the name of the Giant Dragon True King to slaughter the Divine Death Beasts!"

"Uh... seems feasible."

Winter of Death hovered in midair, let out a long roar towards the sky.

The power of the Demigod rapidly expanded, quickly reaching thousands of kilometers away.

Subsequently, roars of the Giant Dragon spirits echoed from all directions.

The Divine Death Beast army initially ready to charge, suddenly halted.

The Demigod Divine Death Beasts showed a flicker of panic, looking around.

The Divine Death Beasts feared not a mere ordinary giant dragon tribe, but facing the entire Giant Dragon spirits, they were no match.

One after another, Demigod Giant Dragon spirits arrived from afar, bowing to Zhou Leng.

Most lacked teleportation ability, either flying or running.

From high above, numerous massive entities flew in from all around, gathering in Zhou Leng’s direction at terrifying speeds dozens of times the speed of sound, even exceeding twenty times.

The Divine Death Beasts were terrified, their army slowly retreating.

The Demigod Divine Death Beasts retreated while whispering.

Their gazes frequently fell on the corpse of the Crocodile Bear God.

Winter of Death saw many powerful Giant Dragon spirits beside him, feeling confident, set Zhou Leng down, and floated high in the sky.

"You dared send Divine Death Beasts to attack the Giant Dragon True King, intending to challenge the entire Giant Dragon spirits tribe, you’re doomed!"

The other newcomer Demigod Giant Dragon spirits remained calm, seemingly uninvolved.

Some Divine Death Beasts shouted loudly, not willing to submit, yet continued to retreat.

Zhou Leng collected the Crocodile Bear God’s corpse, approached the Demigods, engaging in conversation.

The Demigod Giant Dragon spirits were far smarter than the Divine Death Beasts.

Giant Dragon spirits had always suppressed the Giant spirit and Divine Death Beasts, now with such a good excuse, they wouldn’t miss the chance.

They expressed intentions to punish the Divine Death Beasts, which Zhou Leng agreed to.

The Godless Beast army retreats, they advance.

Until they retreat to the banks of the Divine Vein River, numerous dragon spirits converge from all directions, gathering with Zhou Leng’s forces.

In terms of top strength and number of demigods, the dragon spirits have an absolute advantage.

The Winter of Death suddenly transmitted a message to the Winter of Death, who immediately shouted loudly, "Please, His Majesty the True King, order to crush these intruding Godless Beasts!"

"Attack!" Zhou Leng spoke the divine text.

"Kill!"

The overwhelming dragon spirits charged forward.

The Godless Beast army instantly collapsed, fleeing frantically.

The demigod giant dragons pounced on the demigod Divine Death Beasts.

The Winter of Death was extremely excited, following behind his parents, constantly ambushing opponents.

When spotting weaker demigods, the Half Horn of Death and the Frost of Death would leave them to their son, while the couple attacked other demigods.

Zhou Leng remembered he could use the Headless God, so he shouted, "Leave me a strong divine corpse, preferably headless."

"Don’t worry, I’ll pick the best for you!" The Winter of Death shouted.

The other dragon spirits heard this and began searching for excellent demigods.

Just a part of one Headless God’s component can enhance the power of a martial artist.

If it is a complete headless divine corpse, excluding the head, the power will increase again.

However, the increase is too small, better to divide it into six parts: chest, abdomen, arms, and legs, to be used by six people.

Only a complete headless divine corpse with closely related bloodlines can trigger full power, allowing the bloodline descendants’ power to rise to the level of a Martial Saint.

A legendary battle not requiring Zhou Leng’s intervention erupted on the ground.

Zhou Leng didn’t stay idle; he frequently watched the demigods’ battles, secretly learning and comparing with Dragon God combat techniques.

Dragon God combat techniques are not just moves but also include the battle philosophy of the Dragon God.

The content is extremely profound, currently not fully understandable.

Approximately after the Void God realm, it might be possible to fully comprehend.

A full day and night later, the battle ended.

The battered yet enthusiastic dragon spirits returned and held a celebration at the Divine Vein River’s banks.

Because of this fight, the Godless Beast race lost nearly half, unable to rival the dragon spirits for several thousand years to come.

Zhou Leng selected the corpse of the most powerful upper-rank demigod Divine Death Beast, a fifty-meter-long "Rock-armored Earth Dragon God", and requested demigods to help dismantle it into six parts.

Meanwhile, Zhou Leng expelled the previous demigod Beastman’s arm with Qi and gradually refined the six-part headless divine components with True Energy.

The process went smoothly, but the result had a small surprise.

The Headless God can only refine ordinary demigods, the Rock-armored Earth Dragon God has divine spirit blood, too strong a life nature.

After refining, peculiar rock-bone-like fragments remained, adhering to the body.

Simplifying the matter by refining them into a heart-protecting mirror, safeguarding the heart.

Refining completed, Zhou Leng closed his eyes using martial arts perception.

The power of the Rock-armored Earth Dragon God far surpasses the Beastman demigod’s arm.

With the enhancement of personal power, the Headless God’s effect diminished, the previous headless god arm’s overall power increase from initially around twenty percent shrank to less than five percent later.

But with its divine spirit bloodline, the Rock-armored Earth Dragon God’s boost reached the extreme thirty percent.

Enhancing Zhou Leng’s physical strength to unimaginable limits.

Even in future ascension to Martial Saint, this headless god set’s effect will maintain at least half.

The demigod immaterial spirits observing Zhou Leng nodded gently.

When they were upper-rank grandmasters, their bodies didn’t reach such terrifying levels.

At the celebration banquet, the returning demigod dragon carp people thanked Zhou Leng profusely.

The next day, all factions dispersed.

The giants headed to True King Mountain, Zhou Leng proceeded to Dragon Bone Mountain.

The dragon carp people returned home, rebuilding underground cities.

Meanwhile, a legend began to circulate among the immaterial spirits; the kind dragon carp people aided the downtrodden True King of the dragons, Leng of Death, and after rising to power, the True King summoned all dragon demigods to raid the dragon carp people’s enemies, slaughtering over a hundred demigod Divine Death Beasts.

This epic battle was named "True King’s Wrath."

Upon arriving at Dragon Bone Mountain, Zhou Leng ran swiftly in search.

Occasionally sensing some items with potent auras, resembling dense star cores.

However, the dragon god’s bones were never detected.

For that purpose, even the earth-walker chariot was used for underground exploration.

Bad news is, no dragon god bones found yet.

Good news is, discovered a bone fragment containing Far-reaching Mountain’s spirit.

Not too large, just about a foot in area, maybe smaller than a fingernail of Far-reaching Mountain.

Yet it is the true divine body.

Not of a Void God, but a True God.

Even a small piece suffices to refine a top-tier half-divine artifact.

Carefully stowed away in the starry bag.

The starry bag is much larger than the previous space wood box.

The earlier space wood box was only the size of a warehouse, whereas the starry bag’s space is ten kilometers in length, width, and height, enough to hold a small city.

But even this large, it’s just the lowest grade starry bag.

No such starry storage space has been heard of in the Ten Realms till now.

After searching for a while more, Zhou Leng gave up, and ran towards Wanyun Mountain.

While moving, recalling the scenes from previous demigod battles.

Despite their crude overall techniques, each time at crucial moments, it seemed as if they were possessed by divine spirits, always able to execute extremely miraculous moves.

Some of the moves’ intricacies even surpassed human martial arts.

Zhou Leng memorized each one, continually visualizing them for learning.